Apparently koalas are actually far from being cute and cuddly, with Churchill telling the Adelaide Advertiser: "He was close but then he started running towards me and I thought I better speed up. But the more I sped up, the faster he got... They've got hard, sharp claws and I didn’t want to have him grabbing at my leg as I was on the bike."

"The best advice I can give to people is to not engage with a koala displaying a weird behaviour. Make sure that there is another object between you and the koala so that it can’t climb you. The claws are nasty."